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I also find my Caloundra Library card.
    After lunch I strap on my bike helmet, tuck the card into my wallet and ride. The bike helmet is red-orange in colour, a choice agreed upon by my parents when it was bought for me, so I can efficiently signal the danger I represent. When it's on my head I look like a big Redhead match, and whatever I'm signalling, I don't think it's danger. Cars pass, blowing hot exhaust at me, and I am beginning to wonder about my enthusiasm for books.
    The library, though, will be air-conditioned, and I can stay there a while. And who knows what might happen there (p. 17).

My mother says, Let's go out for dinner. You've really been festering today. You need to get out.
    We go to one of the Chinese restaurants in the main street.
    I tell her I'm not festering. That I've been doing almost the same things she has, that the only difference in our days was she didn't get whipped two nothing at pool by Len Boit.
    The only difference, essentially (p. 20).

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